Data Platform Engineer, Digital Operations
Data Platform Engineer at electric aviation company BETA Technologies: designs, builds, and operates the enterprise data platform on cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS) — data lakes, graph databases, pipelines, data catalogs, and GraphQL/REST APIs — using Python, SQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD/infrastructure-as-code to keep data findable, reliable, and production-ready.
- Compensation
- $105K–$125K / yr
- Location
- South Burlington, Vermont, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Data engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
- 3+ years building and shipping data or platform infrastructure in production with ownership of availability, performance, and incident response
- Strong software engineering fundamentals including clean code, testing, and maintainable systems
- Provisioned, configured, and operated cloud-based data services in production (preferably AWS)
- Built or maintained systems using graph databases (e.g., Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, Stardog) and designed graph data models
- Designed and built APIs other teams/systems depend on, with working knowledge of GraphQL
- Proficiency with modern data engineering tools and languages (e.g., Python, SQL)
- Designed and built data pipelines and data models ingesting/transforming diverse data sources
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and containerized deployments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure and application layers
- Excellent communication skills, able to translate technical concepts for diverse audiences
Nice to have
- 5+ years of experience building and operating production data platforms at scale
- Experience with semantic technologies: knowledge graphs, ontology design, RDF, OWL, SPARQL, SHACL, RML/R2RML
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as agentic coding assistants
- Experience with distributed computing frameworks (e.g., Spark) and/or event-driven/streaming architectures (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis)
- Hands-on experience with metadata management platforms and enterprise data catalogs
- Implemented data lineage and data quality solutions at scale
- Experience with monitoring, observability, and alerting for production data systems
- Experience working in regulated industries or with complex data governance frameworks
- Familiarity with aerospace or manufacturing data standards and regulations
- Knowledge of IoT protocols and time-series data management
Full description
At BETA Technologies, we apply our intellectual curiosity, passion for aviation, and commitment to sustainability toward a shared mission of revolutionizing electric aviation. Regardless of the position one holds, each team member brings their talent and desire to positively impact the environment and lives of others in a refreshing, vibrant, and inclusive culture.
We are seeking a bringing strong hands-on engineering skills and a builder's mindset to help design, deploy, and operate the data and knowledge infrastructure that powers our organization. In this role, you will combine software and data engineering fundamentals with practical experience in cloud-native architectures, graph databases, and API design to build robust, scalable production systems that enable rich data discovery, seamless integration, and reliable access across diverse data sources. You will work collaboratively with data scientists, other platform engineers, and domain experts to evaluate, architect, and implement the most appropriate data solutions, and then roll up your sleeves to build, deploy, and maintain them in production. The ideal candidate is a pragmatic, hands-on technologist who thrives on solving real infrastructure and data challenges end-to-end, from initial design through production operations, and who takes pride in building systems that make data more findable, accessible, and reusable across the enterprise.
How you will contribute to revolutionizing electric aviation:
- Design, build, and operate scalable data platform services and frameworks that empower domain teams to manage their data assets within a cohesive enterprise architecture
- Implement data integration solutions that create a digital thread connecting information across the entire product lifecycle from design through manufacturing to field operations
- Build and maintain data storage systems including data lakes, warehouses, and graph databases that make organizational data accessible and ready to power advanced analytics and AI
- Create and extend enterprise data catalog capabilities that document what data exists across organizational systems, how it is structured, and how it connects, enabling teams across the company to navigate the full data landscape
- Develop and expose performant data access layers using technologies such as GraphQL and REST APIs, providing intuitive interfaces to complex underlying data
- Deploy, monitor, and manage production data systems on cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, and reliability
- Implement data quality and lineage solutions that ensure accuracy and traceability across diverse data types; essential for aerospace compliance and establishing a trusted foundation for analytics and AI
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automated deployment processes that keep our data platform agile, reproducible, and production-ready